Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses to which they may be put, is as utterly meaningless and vain as to inquire whether a musical tone is red or yellow. No other conceivable relation than this between ideas and things can exist. The unknowable is what I cannot react upon. The active part of our nature is not only an essential part of cognition itself, but it always has a voice in determining what shall be believed and what rejected.

G. Stanley Hall's Popular Quotes

.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

- G. Stanley Hall

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

- G. Stanley Hall

Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so wil…

- G. Stanley Hall

Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

- G. Stanley Hall

Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

- G. Stanley Hall

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

- G. Stanley Hall

Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

- G. Stanley Hall

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

- G. Stanley Hall

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

- G. Stanley Hall